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27-05-2018, 10:32 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2017
Posts: 418
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impermanence and the way of self-love
Just accept yourself as you are and do what you feel great ABOUT.
Pleasure lasts a MOMENT, but you have FOREVER to remember your choices.
Therefore, don't just do what gives you momentary pleasure; do what you'll look back on and feel great about.
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02-06-2018, 08:29 AM
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Some problems with this, happy soul.
1) Just accept yourself as you are... Are you saying self-development is not the way?
2) "Therefore, don't just do what gives you momentary pleasure; do what you'll look back on and feel great about." How can you be sure that something giving you momentary pleasure isn't great? Is there something wrong with momentary pleasure? Is pleasure always momentary? If you feel great about something isn't it possible that it pleases you longer than momentary?
Or is it that great things stem from denial and abstemiousness?
20 years ago there were too many things wrong about myself that acceptance would have led nowhere. There was too much to learn, to become. I wasn't entirely sure what to do about it but I made a start. Your opening statement sounds very Hicks-y to me but I can't accept that spiritual development is a no-no or unwise.
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02-06-2018, 11:00 AM
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Master
Join Date: Oct 2010
Posts: 7,993
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Quote:
Originally Posted by happy soul
Just accept yourself as you are and do what you feel great ABOUT.
Pleasure lasts a MOMENT, but you have FOREVER to remember your choices.
Therefore, don't just do what gives you momentary pleasure; do what you'll look back on and feel great about.
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The human condition, the self-mind thinks it is something it is not and therefore feeling in that state rises from that state. It's subjective and unconsciously motivated to persist so it's best to first know who you are.
The process to know who you are is to contemplate what the self-mind is.
The real you doesn't look back and feels whatever is and the mind then is a tool of perception as is sight and touch and so on. The true you is naturally happy.
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CHITTA VRITTI NIRODHA
The cessation of identifying with the fluctuations arising within consciousness
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